We are healthy. We were fed. We did things for fun. We ate dinner together. I went shopping with my mom for a 50th wedding anniversary outfit. We ate lunch at Good Life Gourmet. I was a good day.
Alex was disappointed because he wasn't able to work out plans of his design. This was hard as a mom, not to jump in and 'fix' the problem. He needs to learn that things don't always work out according to our plans. He needs to learn, as we all do, that our activities or our relationships aren't the basis of our joy. Our joy comes from our relationship with God and the understanding that we are his chosen children and he loves us and was willing to step out of eternity into time in order to save us. Happiness is transluscent...it can illuminate, fade through, and show vague shapes of what is reality, but it is also transcient..it shifts, moves, and eludes us at times. Hard lessons. My prayer is that I can teach these lessons to my children as I learn them myself.
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Welcome to the world of sharing your thoughts with the rest of the Earthlings!
By the way, you are doing a great job with your boys. I've watched them grow up in the Lord, under your love and guidance and can see that you really "get it" that God says raise up a child in the way he should go...which is different from training up all kids in the way all kids should go. They are each shaped and gifted differently for their calling in God's own purpose and you are great at training them up that way!
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